California – MMI Mindful

Lauri Kriva

Nizam Attari — Tue, 31 May 2022 16:48:07 +0000

Lauri Kriva is the founder of Swellheart, a Mindfulness and Meditation company that co-creates experiences with both individuals and groups. Through curiosity, deep listening and holding compassionate space, Lauri works with you to access your innate wisdom through mindfulness and meditation practices that can help you lead a more meaningful life.

Meditation has transformed Lauri’s own life by bringing a sense of calm and acceptance about others and the world, awakening her love of self, and connecting her to her own wellspring of inner wisdom. She believes the most powerful thing you can do to heal the world is to heal yourself.

Lauri’s early life followed a predictable progression of academic and professional accomplishments: overseas study. College degree. HR Management certification. Fifteen years global HR experience with NIKE and Timberland. In 2006, her heart led her to life coaching, and a cascade of experiences that married her skills with a love of learning: voiceover, real estate, health/wellness, and authoring a children’s book. She often says she lives life with her head in the clouds, her feet on the ground and her heart wide open.

Lauri is a a certified Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher through the McLean Meditation Institute and a certified Dr. Sears Health Coach. Lauri and her family live in Santa Barbara, California. She can be reached via email at laurikriva@gmail.com. Visit her page on Vimeo, here.

When it is time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. – Henry David Thoreau

Karen Allen

Nizam Attari — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:04:10 +0000

Karen Allen has studied mindfulness, meditation, and yoga for over 18 years. Prior to that, she worked as an attorney specializing in immigration law.

She received MMI Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher Certification and certification as an MMI Mindful Trainer® to teach Mindfulness in the Workplace, and has completed the Chopra Meditation Enrichment Program.

For many years, she has dedicated herself to volunteering in the community with an emphasis on helping the homeless, the elderly, and families, including those with children who have critical illnesses. Raised in Chile and Mexico, she has a keen interest in helping Spanish-speaking populations.

Her goal is to offer mindfulness and meditation training so that others may experience the benefits of stress-reduction and increased well-being and live productive, positive, and peaceful lives.

Felicia Dong

Nizam Attari — Mon, 17 May 2021 21:08:30 +0000

Felicia Dong is a Certified Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher. She started practicing meditation in 2010 and has been teaching mindfulness & meditation since 2015. After spending 20 years in the corporates, she founds Wings Meditation and provides Meditation & Mindfulness classes to the corporations, schools, and individuals of age 12 to 70. Her experience in Hakomi training in 2016 brings her teaching with Hakomi principles, organicity, mindfulness, nonviolence, mind-body holism, and unity (these are rooted in Taoism and Buddhism). She believes in the ancient wisdom tradition of mind and body were interconnected which modern science has shown that the mind has the power to heal and that everyone has that capacity and can use it to restore the balance of life and develop the inner strength.

She is now based in California after living in China for 42 years. She is honored to share her guided meditations with the Feast for the Soul. “Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West, then seek.”

Felicia teaches the Simple Easy Everyday Meditation for stress release, self-care, and spiritual growth.

简单容易的日常冥想，帮助释放压力，自我关怀和精神成长。

Felicia Dong 是一名注册的冥想与正念教师。她从2010年开始练习正念冥想，从2015年开始全身心教授正念与冥想。在企业工作了20年后，她创立了Wings Meditation，为企业、学校和12岁至70岁的个人提供了冥想和正念课程。她在2016年接受了心理学派哈科米的训练，为她的冥想教学注入了哈科米原则，即有机自发，正念觉知，非暴力，身心合一和平等（这些根植于道教和佛教的理念）。她相信，在古老的智慧中心灵和身体是相互连结的，现代科学也已经证明，心灵有疗愈的力量。每个人都有这种能力，并可以利用它来恢复生活的平衡和发展内在的力量。

在中国生活了42年后，她现在住在加州。她很荣幸能在Feast for the Soul分享她的冥想教学。”融合东方的智慧和西方的知识，然后去寻找。”

650-209-2735

feliciadong@hotmail.com

Tony Saccardi

Nizam Attari — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 02:50:32 +0000

Tony is a former IT Technical Director and Software Architect. 5 years ago, as a volunteer for Schwab’s wellness team, he started facilitating mindfulness at the workplace. It didn’t take long before some of his co-workers reported multiple benefits, such as being calm under stress, clarity of mind and better listening skills. After 3 years of facilitating and seeing the transformation in himself and others, he decided to make mindfulness training and coaching his fulltime job. He is now a certified meditation teacher and MMI Mindful® Trainer, featured on Insight Timer and Wellness Coach, a professional life coach accredited from CTI (CPCC) and ICF (ACC) as well as a Goleman Emotional Intelligence Certified Coach (EICC). He lives in the Bay-Area, in northern Marin, with his wife and 2 daughters and his hobbies are traveling, beachcombing and when the weather permits, diving in the cold ocean waters of northern California.

Kim Boda

Nizam Attari — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 02:40:02 +0000

Kim is a certified Meditation & Mindfulness Instructor and MMI Mindful® Trainer through the McLean Meditation Institute.

Sarah McLean

Nizam Attari — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 02:35:45 +0000

Since 1990, Sarah McLean has been training people of all ages, of all professions, and of every religion, how to gain the benefits of mindfulness at home and at work. Sarah’s clients say she can inspire anyone to adopt mindfulness – even those who think mindfulness isn’t for them.

She’s trained world-class athletes, the leadership of Fortune 500 companies, and Grammy Award winners, and, she volunteers to bring mindfulness into health support groups and local nonprofits. She is comfortable teaching anyone – almost anywhere.

Mindfulness isn’t a fad for her. Sarah has been dedicated to helping people meet their own minds for decades, serving as a behavioral specialist working with soldiers with PTSD in the US Army and as the education director for Deepak Chopra’s mind-body center for many years. She’s been running her own training company – the McLean Institute – which she founded in 2006.

Sarah is a popular inspirational speaker and a best-selling author who has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, and Fox Health News. She travels worldwide to teach, and lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Contact her here.

Christine Rolfe

Nizam Attari — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 02:28:38 +0000

With a 25-year career in marketing, Christine Rolfe understands the need to manage stress and find life balance. She brings mindfulness to organizations who are seeking ways to improve the well-being of their workforce.

Christine is a certified mindfulness instructor and course advisor at the McLean Meditation Institute, advising students through their 200-hour certification course, developing course curriculum, and assisting with special projects that support student development.

Christine also guides weekly classes, leads workshops, and offers private sessions on mindfulness to kids, teens, and adults. Her smile grows even larger when teaching people who are new to mindfulness as she loves helping people everywhere find more resilience, well-being, and work/life balance.

In addition to being an MMI Mindful Trainer, Christine is certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens Program (MBSR-T) and holds a B.A. in Communication and Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Years ago, Christine began her practice of mindfulness as a way to calm her mind and increase clarity in her daily life. Christine says, “If I can meditate (with my over-active mind) anyone can!”

Silvi Winthrop

Nizam Attari — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 02:22:18 +0000

Silvi is a mother, wife, former elementary school teacher, NASM certified fitness trainer, a Certified McLean Meditation Institute Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher, and MMI Mindful® Trainer. In 2014, Silvi went to Sedona for personal renewal and rejuvenation. She learned how to meditate and kept up the daily practice, which changed her life. She found she was more self-aware, calmer, relaxed, centered, more balanced and energized.

Silvi was so thrilled with the positive changes in her life that she wanted to share what she had discovered and help people better their lives by reducing their stress and healing their bodies. She became a meditation teacher and took advanced training to bring mindfulness into the workplace. She offers meditation and mindfulness training in the Los Angeles area for groups, corporations, kids, or individuals looking to learn a simple way to incorporate meditation and mindfulness into daily life.

Laurie Keig-Morrell

Nizam Attari — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 02:14:27 +0000

Laurie is a McLean Meditation Institute® Certified Meditation & Mindfulness Instructor (CMMI) and Certified MMI Mindful® Trainer. She has taught classes and workshops at New Mindful Life in San Diego, meditation coursework to yoga teachers in training (School of Gently Yoga, Encinitas), private meditation classes, workplace meditation, and workshops. Additionally, Laurie is a Certified Yoga Teacher specializing in Gentle Yoga.

Laurie has a dedicated daily meditation practice and truly believes meditation significantly changed her personal and professional life; she is delighted to teach meditation and mindfulness tools to anyone with the curiosity to explore what meditation and mindfulness has to offer.

Alison Eisen

Nizam Attari — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 01:37:00 +0000

Alison Ungaro holds her MA in children’s psychology & school counseling from Marymount University. A single mom of four, the many demands of motherhood led Alison to a mindfully inspired life.

Alison is passionate about all modalities of energy work as her tool box is ever expanding. She is a certified mindfulness & meditation teacher from the McLean Meditation Institute, as well as a MMI Mindful® Trainer. In addition, she studied yin yoga at Bhakti Yoga Shala, is a certified kundalini yoga instructor from Kundalini by the Sea, a reiki practitioner, and a sound and intuitive healer.

Visit her website here: uthrivewellness.org